BTLN UPDATE - LAST NIGHT

 

Another Last Night is in the books! I can't believe that the year is already over! Congrats to GeRRald, Austin and Max on a great finish to the Winston Championship! (More on that later!)

So many guys showed up, it was amazing! The night started with Murderball. Ben's team took the first two games but my team battled back to tie the score 2-2! The final game went to Ben's team giving Ben bragging rights for the summer!

Next we brought out the 9 foot party sub from Subway! Which the guys devoured!

The Btln Grad ceremonies were next. We gave Jordan, Cody, GeRRald, Austin, Dan D and Dart a Study Bible. (Study being the key word here guys!) The guys also got a Btln dog tag and a copy of the Hebrew saying.(In English.) After they guys read the saying they ate the paper, as per tradition!

The traditional group photo, cake(made by Maxwell)and then on to Bulldog! Austin sacrificed himself early so that he could take out GeRRald and Max. Landon had lots of help early making it easier to take out some of the other bigger guys. Cody Harp took the last Helmet of the year and the last of his Btln career!(Sad isn't it?) Congrats Cody! This was Cody's second Helmet of the year!

With the tie in the Winston standings we needed a tiebreaker for the first time ever! The Football Toss was a tough test with everyone watching. There were only two footballs that hit the target! Austin hitting 1 for 5 and both GeRRald and Max going 0 for 5. Max graciously bowed out of the tiebreaker, setting up a final tiebreaker between Austin and GeRRald! The final tiebreaker was a best of three Box Hockey tourney! (I love Box Hockey!) Austin dominated and won the first game taking the lead 1-0. GeRRald battled back in the second spending most of the game in Austin's end. GeRRald got the win in the second game tying the series 1-1. GeRRald dominated the last game taking the win, the tiebreaker and Winston! Congrats GeRRald you are a worthy Champion! Austin and GeRRald were both great sports and put on an amazing show!

The Memory Work is still our priority at Btln and this week Luke Martens finished the Memory Work! Congrats Luke! Luke is only the second grade seven ever to complete the Memory Work!(Max was the first!) Noah Makortoff is also getting close to completing the Memory Work! Actually so is Jake Hachey! So stoked about the guys doing the Memory Work!

We gave Winston to GeRRald, we prayed and then the night and the year were both over!(Almost over.)

The grade eleven's and twelve's, Btln Leaders and Alumni went to the Station for the Last Night Afterparty! More food and good times! (The grads received there Btln Medallions at the Afterparty!) And then the night (Last Night) was truly over!

Thanks to all the guys that came out!

Thanks to all the leaders that have helped throughout the year! Ben, Jason, Nathan B, Jake, Zach and Nathan K! Without your help we could not have had Btln this year!

Thanks to Max for the amazing cake!

Thanks to Sam and Jeff for your help in the kitchen!

Thanks also to Tyler Francis for coming out this week, it is awesome when Alumni can come out on a Wednesday Night!

Next up is the May Long Campout!

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LAST NIGHT 2013

 

 

Last Night was amazing! I will post more pictures tonight! So many great memories made Last Night!

 

 

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WINSTON STANDINGS

 

There is only one week left at Btln and we have a three way tie for first in the Winston Standings! Max, GeRRald and Austin are all tied for first! This has never happened before so we had to come up with a tie-breaker. This is our solution. (Although if one of these three were able to win Bulldog this week we wouldn't need the tiebreaker.)

 

The guys will play one three way game of Football Toss with the top two scores moving on to a best of three Box Hockey game for the Winston Championship! Good luck guys!

 

WINSTON STANDINGS

 

GERRALD NICHOLSON - 3 Helmets and 1 Major
AUSTIN SCOW - 3 Helmets and 1 Major
MAXWELL NICHOLSON - 3 Helmets and 1 Major
JAKOB BOSCHMANN - 2 Helmets and 1 Major

DARTAGNAN BUTCHER - 2 Helmet

SPENCER HENDERSON - 2  Helmet
 JOHN VAN - 2 Helmets
 LUKE BOSCHMANN - 2 Helmet
 NATE KLASSEN - 2 Helmets
 RIK BROWN - 1 Helmet and 1 Major
 JORDAN HAMMETT - 1 Helmet
 CODY HARP - 1 Helmet
 TRISTAN HARVEY - 1 Helmet

 LANDON WARWARUK - 1 Helmet
 NOAH MAKORTOFF - 1 Helmet
 LUKE MARTENS - 1 Helmet

 

 

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LAST NIGHT - THE FOOD

 

There will once again be 9 feet of deliciousness at Last Night! That's right, we will be eating a nine foot party sub from Subway! Maxwell is also going to bring one of his amazing cakes!(Check the pics.)

 

Bring your appetite and bring a friend!

 

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BTLN BIBLES

 

One of the traditions of Last Night is giving the Btln Grads a Bible. Such an honor and a privilege to be able to give these Bibles to our Grads! So great to see these guys grow up and so sad to see them go! Last Night is so bittersweet!

 

 

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LAST NIGHT PICS FROM THE PAST

 

Last Night is only a few days away! Can't believe that there is only one night left in the 2012/13 Btln 3739 Season! So many good memories from the past! Can't wait to make some more!

 

 

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BTLN UPDATE

Congrats Landon! This is Landon's first career Helmet! That first win is soo sweet! I am predicting that this won't be Landon's last Helmet. Could Landon be in the running for Winston next year? Only time will tell!

The night started with Menno on the bbq and Gatorade! Not sure how many Menno dogs were eaten this week but between this week and two weeks ago I'm sure that Btln 3739 collectively consumed one pig!

Football has always been the sport of choice at Btln 3739 in the spring, but the times they are a changing! Half of the guys wanted to play football and the other half wanted to play soccer. So this week we decided to play soccer at one end of the field and football at the other end! This actually worked well. Most of the younger guys played soccer while the grade elevens and twelves played football. This gave me the chance to get some revenge on the J-man for beating my team two weeks ago! We actually tried playing tackle football which turned out to be a bad idea. Oh well, I guess once in a while we need a reminder why we play touch football at Btln! The game was tied 21-21 so we had to go to overtime. Jason's team was first with the ball but was unable to score with four downs from the twenty yard line. Next my team had our chance and on first down Austin scored to give us the win 28-21!  The young guys played soccer and it looked like a good time, Jake and Zach lead the way. The soccer game ended in a 3-3 tie.

In Bible study this week we tried to wrap up our year long series "The History of the World" or "His Story".

We talked about how Jesus was at the beginning of the history of the world as the Creator.

Colossians 1:15-17  The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Jesus didn't just create the world, he also holds it all together! And then when man sinned he didn't just sit back and watch us all perish, he was willing to sacrifice himself for us!

Colossians 2:13-14  When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

Jesus' death and resurrection is at the heart or center of the history of the world. All history revolves around what Jesus did for us at the cross!

Romans 6:6-7  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Jesus has set us free from sin!

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Jesus will be there at the end of the world, to take us to heaven so that we can be with him forever!

Revelation 1:8  “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Next week is Last Night! Don't miss the 9 foot party sub from Subway! Spread the word!

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BTLN PREVIEW - FOOTBALL AND "POP N DOGS" PART 2

 

 

 

Second last night of the 2012/13 Btln Season and the last Football of the year!

 

Can we eat 80 Menno dogs this week?

 

 

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BTLN UPDATE - THE BTLN MASTERS

 

 

Congrats Rik! Rik Brown has now tied Calvin Peters with four consecutive Btln Major victories! Calvin won the Btln Ping Pong Tourney from 2001/02 - 2004/05! Rik has now won the Btln Masters from 2009/10 - 2012/13! Rik has the chance to make it five straight next year!

 

37 guys came out to this years edition of the Btln Masters! The weather looked all day like it wasn't going to cooperate but in the end we had clear skies and wet grass! (Normal Btln golfing weather.)

 

THE 8TH BTLN MASTERS

Top Three Final Scores

Rik - 36

Jordan - 40

Austin - 40

 

Thanks to all the other guys that came out!

GeRRald

Max

Landon

D. Barney

Jonathan

Tyler

Lukas

Zach

Noah

Ben

James

Luke

Harley

Mitch

Nathan

Stephen

Dylan

Talon

Gabe

Levi

Riley

Ryelee

Phoenix

Alex

Reese

Alex

Jakob

Kaylon

 

Special thanks to the leaders for helping make it happen!

Ben

Jason

Jake

Sam

Nathan

 

 

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BTLN BIRTHDAYS - APRIL

I can't believe that it is April already! This year has flown by! It is so good to have the chance to take a look back at pictures from years gone by!

 

Happy Birthday and may God bless you again this year!

 

Psalm 55:22  Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

 

KALEB HORKOFF - April 4
JUSTIN THOMPSON - April 7
LANDON WARWARUK - April 11

SKYLER MYER - April 12

RILEY BECKER - April 12
CHRIS HENDERSON - April 13

ALEX ST. ONGE - April 13

RYELEE BROOKS - April 19
DAN DIMOCK - April 29

 

 

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BTLN PREVIEW - THE 8TH BTLN MASTERS

 

It is nearly time for the fifth and final Btln Major of the 2012/13 Btln Season! Rik Brown has dominated the Btln Masters the last three years! If Rik can win this year he will be up to fifty percent! (4 out of 8 Btln Masters!) Will Rik's dominance continue? Is there someone who can beat Rik? Can't wait to find out!

 

BTLN MASTERS CHAMPIONS
Jordon Walsh - 2005/06
Jordon Walsh - 2006/07
Parker Steadman - 2007/08
Drew Brown - 2008/09
Rik Brown - 2009/10
Rik Brown - 2010/11

Rik Brown - 2011/12

 

Will Jeremy win the leaders tourney again or will someone else finally win?

 

Btln Leaders Golf Tourney

Jeremy Martens - 2007/08

Charlie Langis - 2008/09

Jeremy Martens - 2009/10

Jeremy Martens - 2010/11

Jeremy Martens - 2011/12

 

 

We are meeting at the church at 6:45 p.m. and will be leaving for Cascade Par 3 at 7:00 p.m.

Don't be late! Bring your clubs(If you have clubs.) and ten dollars. If money is a problem come out anyway! (We will cover the cost!)

 

 

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BTLN UPDATE

 

 

Congrats Spenny! This was Spencer's second Helmet of the 2012/13 Btln season! Spenny's first Helmet of the year was back on First Night! (One more Helmet earlier in the season and Spenny would have been in the mix for Winston!) GeRRald was with Spenny at the end but Austin and Max were not going to let GeRRald take sole possession of first place in the race for Winston!

When I was buying the Menno for Pop n Dogs this week I was wondering if 64 Menno dogs was going to be too much, but Btln 3739 did not let me down! We had a bunch of guys show up this week and they all brought their appetite! All 64 dogs were gone by the end of the night and so was 18 liters of Gatorade! I was so proud!

The last couple of years the scoring has been down when we play football, most games ending 7-0 or 14-7. This week we tried several different ways to increase scoring. In my quest to better the game I was over thinking the problem and made things too difficult. In the end we just shortened the field (We played half the field) and added one more down.(five for the field) When it was time to end, the score was tied 14-14. We decided to go to a C.F.L. style overtime, each team with 3 downs from the ten yard line. Jason's team went first and scored easily on first down! It was my team's turn next and on second down I threw an interception to give Jason's team the 21-14 victory!

This week we had a special guest speaker! Al Martens, the 4th Sergeant of Battalion 3739 (1984/85 and 1985/86) led the Bible study this week! I asked Al to talk about The Resurrection.

1 Corinthians 15:20-22  But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

Philippians 3:20,21  But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

Al pointed out the fact that because of Jesus' resurrection we could look forward to a life after death in a new glorious body that will be like Jesus'!

1 Peter 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Not only will we be raised to life in our new and glorious bodies we will also receive an inheritance!

Romans 6:1-7  What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Lastly Al showed us that because of Jesus' resurrection we can live a new life and no longer need to be a slave to sin! How great is our God! We no longer need to be ruled by sin!

1 Corinthians 10:13  No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Thanks to Al for preparing the Bible study! Thanks also to Jason who helped clean up the mess after Pop n Dogs!

Next week is 8th annual Btln Masters! We meet at the church at 6:45 p.m. and will be leaving for Cascade Par 3 at 7:00 p.m.! Don't be late!

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BTLN PREVIEW - FOOTBALL & POP N DOGS!

Football this week at Btln 3739! (Touch Football)

Spring Football has been a part of Btln 3739 for as long as I can remember, it is definitely a Btln 3739 Tradition! Lately we have added "Pop n Dogs" to Btln Football, free food is always a hit!

 

We are meeting at the high school field at 6:30 and will end at 8:30 like we always do!

 

 

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